REW Slideshows are Now Editable!

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It's been requested periodically in the last several years, and
we finally did it! Now, every REW template comes with our
Slideshow Manager.

Just to be clear: Anyone who buys even the most basic template
setup will now be able to upload their own photos to their
slideshow, change the order, and even make the images click through
to other pages. Here's how the slideshow manager looks in the
backend:

Some of you couldn't wait for this, and you paid us to do a
custom implementation on your site. (Maybe about 8 of you in the
last three years.) Hats off to you, o you pioneers.

How it Works

As you can see, it's pretty simple. You just upload images to
the manager, and then drag them into the order you want the
slideshow to display them in.

Don't be fooled by the "EDIT" button you can see in the
screenshot. You have to crop the images to size yourself,
before you upload them. We've included some information
about how to edit the photos in the tutorial.

Is the Slideshow the Same on Every Page?

If you order the basic slideshow manager product, then the
slideshow applies to all CMS pages. You can't make a different
slideshow appear on different pages UNLESS you request it, and
approve an estimate of about one hour of custom programming time.
If you pay for that extra hour (estimate), then you can
have different slideshows on different pages!

Questions and Answers:

Q: Why is there an option to make the images
clickable? Why would someone click on my photo of the city's
skyline?A: Some of our customers are going to do stuff
like this:

Take a screenshot of foreclosure listings

Pay a graphic artist to turn it into a call-to-action with "See
Springfield Foreclosures!" written on it

Upload it as the first image in the slideshow and link it to
the foreclosures page

(This will be the cheaper version of high-end CTA slideshows like
Mike's, Mark's,
and Drew's)

(Note the possibilities are endless, here. You can also use a photo
of your team with "Find out why our service is different" and link
to your bio page, ETC.)

Q: Can I have different slideshows on different
pages?A: Only if you order
a customization that takes about an hour to
implement ("Can you please make it so my slideshow manager is
'per-page'?"). I know I would do that, if it were
my site. Imagine area-specific photos on the neighbourhood
pages!

Q: Does the slideshow manager allow you to
change the time intervals between slides?A: No, it doesn't, but you could ask us to change
the interval for you in a custom project. Wouldn't take long.

Q: So how can I get the slideshow manager for
my existing REW site?A: It's a $300
product for those whose sites were installed before we made
this a standard of our sites' CMS's. Post in our Work Orders
Forum or email Sales and ask for
it!
Note that the $300 is only for a standard implementation on an
applicable REW template and does not account for time needed to
make the product work with existing customized elements.

Q: I already have a REW site, and it doesn't
have a slideshow manager. What gives?A: We are only including the slideshow manager in
our installer henceforth. We can't go back in time.

Q: My site went live after you
announced this! Shouldn't I have the slideshow manager?A: Your site was installed several weeks
or months before it went live, so that we could prepare it to go
live. The install date is relevant here, not the live
date.

Q: My images look grainy/blurry. Is there a
problem with my slideshow manager?A: The slideshow manager already works properly,
in terms of correctly displaying the photo you uploaded. If you're
having problems with the images' display, you are not preparing the
photo correctly. Support of this product does not include helping
clients with preparation of the photos.

Q: The slideshow is not presenting the slides
in the order shown in the slideshow manager.A: There may be an issue we need to address.
Please contact our customer support
team.

Q: How many images can I include in the
slideshow?A: There is no limit, but it may slow your pages'
load times if you get excessive.

Hey Adam - the $300 product is just for templates now, not LEC's
- but we could certainly setup a custom solution
on an LEC (easier on an LEC2-3, since they already have
slideshows). The product would be ordered, as a base module, and
then you would be charged hourly for whatever custom time is needed
to make that module work with the LEC platform.

If you want different slideshows on different pages, that's an
extra customization that takes about an hour.

Can I get a quote for inputting this on the LEC2 website for the
premier Residential Real Estate brokerage in Los Angeles, CA a.k.a.
- http://www.ietrealestate.com?

And please include quote for making it customizable per page, I
actually already have all the photography to do this for all my
cities just hadn't gotten around to making this request for custom
work yet because I'm busy with all my leads!!!